A funny thing has happened on the way to the often-predicted demise of IT. Many professionals were concerned companies would use the cloud and the availability of cloud services to marginalize or even eliminate their IT departments. Some business unit ...

Businesses across the IT landscape face a costly ongoing struggle against zombie data servers. These are the estimated 30 percent of all physical servers in data centers that are inert, functionally dead and take up space and power without providing ...

The cloud is no longer simply mainstream. It has become the vital center of the IT universe, tying together customers and resources wherever they are located. As chief information officers (CIOs) and business leaders come to grips with the new ...

According to InfoWorld, the latest results from the widely followed TIOBE rankings of programming languages show JavaScript continues to dominate the programming language landscape. However, another well-established language, C++, is coming on strong, showing substantial gains over the past year.For ...

How big is the cloud? In a word, it is enormous, and according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, as reported upon by Benzinga, cloud storage demand continues to grow by the day. In ...

Encryption of data is one of the most powerful security tools in the information technology (IT) arsenal. Put simply, stolen data is worthless to the thieves if they cannot read it. But putting encryption to work effectively poses a serious ...

Once a novelty and a cause, open-source software tools and components have become pervasive and have revolutionized application development. However, along with open source's new mainstream status comes the challenge of software supply chain management. A subtle but growing security ...